FC: Pennsylvania supreme court says no privacy rights in phone calls

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

> COURT SAYS NO PRIVACY FOR HOME PHONE CALLS
> A split Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that individuals have no 
> reasonable expectation of privacy in telephone calls made in their own 
> home. The judge reasoned that with speakerphones, cell phones and the 
> like, users have no way of knowing who might be listening in on a 
> conversation and thus no reasonable expectation that the call will be 
> private. Majority opinion at 
> http://www.courts.state.pa.us/OpPosting/Supreme/out/J-52-2000-mo.pdf
>
> Coverage at:
> http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZHW8CDOQC




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